|
Search Results:
|
Displaying records 71 through 80 of 2371 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
Price: $11.00
|
|
Sale: $10.00
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Pathfinder Press (NY)
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Ernest Mandel
|
|
Publisher: Pathfinder Press (NY)
|
|
Edition: 2nd
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 335.412
|
|
Publication Date: 1974-06
|
|
Reading Level: 104
|
|
|
|
Description: A concise presentation of the basic principles of political economy. Also available in: Spanish
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $75.98
|
|
Sale: $43.98
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Karl Marx
|
|
Publisher: Prometheus Books
|
|
Edition: 3 VOLUMES IN ONE BOOK
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 335.412
|
|
Publication Date: 2000-07
|
|
Reading Level: 1605
|
|
|
|
Description: THEORIES OF SURPLUS VALUE is the fourth volume in Karl Marx's (1818-1883) monumental work, DAS KAPITAL (CAPITAL). Divided into three parts, this compelling work reviews classic economic analyses of labor and value (Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas R. Malthus, and others), focusing on the concept of surplus value--the difference between the full value of a worker's labor and the wages received for that labor. This is a key concept for Marx, since capitalism maintains its power through controlling surplus value.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $24.95
|
|
Sale: $16.88
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
Author: Xudong Zhang
|
|
Publisher: Duke University Press
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 951.059
|
|
Publication Date: 2008
|
|
Reading Level: 352
|
|
|
|
Description: In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China’s “long 1990s,” the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked by Deng Xiaoping’s market-oriented reforms, the Taiwan missile crisis, the Asian financial crisis, and the end of British colonial rule of Hong Kong. Considering developments including the state’s cultivation of a market economy, the aggressive neoliberalism that accompanied that effort, the rise of a middle class and a consumer culture, and China’s entry into the world economy, Zhang argues that Chinese socialism is not over. Rather it survives as postsocialism, which is articulated through the discourses of postmodernism and nationalism and through the co-existence of multiple modes of production and socio-cultural norms. Highlighting China’s uniqueness, as well as the implications of its recent experiences for the wider world, Zhang suggests that Chinese postsocialism illuminates previously obscure aspects of the global shift from modernity to postmodernity. Zhang examines the reactions of intellectuals, authors, and filmmakers to the cultural and political conflicts in China during the 1990s. He offers a nuanced assessment of the changing divisions and allegiances within the intellectual landscape, and he analyzes the postsocialist realism of the era through readings of Mo Yan’s fiction and the films of Zhang Yimou. With Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Zhang applies the same keen insight to China’s long 1990s that he brought to bear on the 1980s in Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $30.00
|
|
Sale: $17.95
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Verso
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Hardcover
|
|
Author: Daniel Bensaid
|
|
Publisher: Verso
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 335.41
|
|
Publication Date: 2002-10
|
|
Reading Level: 392
|
|
|
|
Description: Without denying the contradictory character of Marx's thought, Daniel Bensad sets out to demonstrate that it was not a philosophy of the end of history, an empirical sociology of classes, or a positive science of economics positing an inexorable progress towards an ineluctable communism. Instead, Marx's 'critique of political economy' encompassed three great critiques of the scientific and political canons of its age - of historical reason, sociological rationality and scientific positivism - which make the thinker from the nineteenth century fully relevant to the twenty-first century of global capitalism. Indeed, we find here a 'post-postmodern Marx' able to inhabit a contemporary world replete with contingency, emergency and contradictory temporalities. Published in France on the eve of the strikes of 1995 that signalled a profound revolt against la pensee unique, Marx for Our Times is an invitation to rediscover our foremost contemporary, Karl Marx.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $15.00
|
|
Sale: $8.16
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Harvest/HBJ Book
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Milovan Djilas
|
|
Publisher: Harvest/HBJ Book
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 335.4
|
|
Publication Date: 1983-04
|
|
Reading Level: 214
|
|
|
Description: This classic by an associate of Yugoslavia's Tito created a sensation when it was published in 1957 because it was the first time that a ranking Communist had publicly analyzed his disillusionment with the system.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $19.95
|
|
Sale: $19.95
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
|
|
Number of Items: 31
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Eric Voegelin::Brendan Purcell
|
|
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 943
|
|
Publication Date: 2003-02
|
|
Reading Level: 296
|
|
|
|
Description: Between 1933 and 1938, Eric Voegelin published four books that expressly stated his opposition to the increasingly powerful Hitler regime. As a result, he was forced to leave his homeland in 1938. Twenty years later, he returned to Germany as a professor of political science at Ludwig-Maximilian University. Voegelin's homecoming allowed him the opportunity to voice once again his opinions on the Nazi regime and its aftermath. In 1964 at the University of Munich, Voegelin gave a series of memorable lectures on what he considered "the central German experiential problem" of his time: Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reasons for it, and its consequences for post-Nazi Germany. For Voegelin, these questions demanded a scrutiny of the mentality of individual Germans and of the order of German society during and after the Nazi period. "Hitler and the Germans" offers Voegelin's most extensive and detailed critique of the Hitler era. Voegelin interprets this era in terms of the basic diagnostic tools provided by the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, Judeo-Christian culture, and contemporary German-language writers like Heimito von Doderer, Karl Kraus, Thomas Mann and Robert Musil. His inquiry uncovers a historiography that was substantially unhistoric: a German Evangelical Church that misinterpreted the Gospel, a German Catholic Church that denied universal humanity, and a legal process enmeshed in criminal homicide.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $34.95
|
|
Sale: $28.59
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Hardcover
|
|
Author: Brian K. Landsberg
|
|
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 342.73072
|
|
Publication Date: 2007-04-07
|
|
Reading Level: 264
|
|
|
|
Description: Although the heroism of last century's freedom marches will long be credited for ending racial discrimination, civil rights legislation owes much to work done more quietly in the district courtrooms of the South. This book expands our understanding of how the Voting Rights Act came about by focusing on several key cases in Alabama that paved the way for this landmark legislation. Brian Landsberg - himself a participant in many of these trials - argues that Department of Justice litigation contributed significantly to the content of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. His close analysis of these trials shows how they helped pave the way for the dramatic expansion of federal power in combating racist enforcement of voting laws. Focusing on three out of the seventy voting rights cases filed between 1957 and 1965, he reveals how the DOJ, newly armed with authority to bring civil suits against voting discrimination, aggressively pursued its efforts to enforce the Reconstruction Amendments. These cases in Elmore, Sumter, and Perry counties helped to expose the chasm between the objectives of the Fifteenth Amendment and the practices of southern voter registrars - and the equally deep chasm between practices in the Deep South and those in the rest of the country. The VRA adopted many of the stringent remedies that emerged from these trials, including the appointment of federal officials to observe elections and maintain lists of eligible voters and the need for federal approval for changes in local voting procedures. Landsberg highlights a long-neglected but vitally important chapter in the history of the civil rights movement and puts a human face on the struggle for the right to vote, enhancing our understanding of the efforts blacks made to register, the doubts of even moderate whites, and the role of federal agents in protecting voter rights. His study is especially welcome in light of the controversy surrounding the VRA's recent renewal in 2006, which caught glimpses of the pre-VRA South, and current concerns over new and emerging forms of disenfranchisement.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $35.00
|
|
Sale: $25.66
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Monthly Review Press
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Istvan Meszaros
|
|
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 335.41
|
|
Publication Date: 2000-12-01
|
|
Reading Level: 994
|
|
|
|
Description: "Not only profound in its analysis, but also so passionately inspired by sympathy for the downtrodden and their struggle for liberation. . ."
--Daniel Singer, The Nation "This is an important book, heavy in size and tone. It belongs in every serious library."
--Choice
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $18.00
|
|
Sale: $9.17
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Richard Gott
|
|
Publisher: Yale University Press
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.91
|
|
Publication Date: 2005-11-01
|
|
Reading Level: 400
|
|
|
|
Description: Events in Fidel Castro’s island nation often command international attention and just as often inspire controversy. Impassioned debate over situations as diverse as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Elián Gonzáles affair is characteristic not only of modern times but of centuries of Cuban history. In this concise and up-to-date book, British journalist Richard Gott casts a fresh eye on the history of the Caribbean island from its pre-Columbian origins to the present day. He provides a European perspective on a country that is perhaps too frequently seen solely from the American point of view.
The author emphasizes such little-known aspects of Cuba’s history as its tradition of racism and violence, its black rebellions, the survival of its Indian peoples, and the lasting influence of Spain. The book also offers an original look at aspects of the Revolution, including Castro’s relationship with the Soviet Union, military exploits in Africa, and his attempts to promote revolution in Latin America and among American blacks. In a concluding section, Gott tells the extraordinary story of the Revolution’s survival in the post-Soviet years.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Price: $19.95
|
|
Sale: $17.00
|
| |
|
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
|
|
Number of Items: 1
|
| |
|
|
|
Binding: Paperback
|
|
Author: Samuel Farber
|
|
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
|
|
Dewey Decimal Number: 972.91064
|
|
Publication Date: 2006-03-13
|
|
Reading Level: 232
|
|
|
|
Description: Analyzing the crucial period of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1961, Samuel Farber challenges dominant scholarly and popular views of the revolution's sources, shape, and historical trajectory. Unlike many observers, who treat Cuba's revolutionary leaders as having merely reacted to U.S. policies or domestic socioeconomic conditions, Farber shows that revolutionary leaders, while acting under serious constraints, were nevertheless autonomous agents pursuing their own independent ideological visions, although not necessarily according to a master plan. Exploring how historical conflicts between U.S. and Cuban interests colored the reactions of both nations' leaders after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista, Farber argues that the structure of Cuba's economy and politics in the first half of the twentieth century made the island ripe for radical social and economic change, and the ascendant Soviet Union was on hand to provide early assistance. Taking advantage of recently declassified U.S. and Soviet documents as well as biographical and narrative literature from Cuba, Farber focuses on three key years to explain how the Cuban rebellion rapidly evolved from a multiclass, antidictatorial movement into a full-fledged social revolution.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Displaying records 71 through 80 of 2371
|
|
|
|
